“Nothing is more important than our friendship.”
“In fact, I'd go one better, and venture that there's nothing more important than friendship: if it should then take you to the ends of the earth with someone you like and admire, so much the better”
“There's nothing more prized to a man than something he had to wait for, work for, or strugle a little bit to get.”
“Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.”
“Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics.”